Geoff Mayfield
Geoff Mayfield
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She was very prolific, especially at the point where she was getting lots of negative publicity. She needed to disappear and come back with an appealing album, and she accomplished both missions.
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It's impossible to compete on price with the loss leaders at department stores or electronic stores. You'd be crazy to do that.
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By injecting the digital sales into the Top 100 we immediately saw a greater variety of music, especially in the top half of the chart.
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The early adopters are in. We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a broader mass-market phenomenon.
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The Internet is also a helpful promotional vehicle for selling physical albums. It reinforces for people that (an artist) has something new to sell.
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The early adopters are in, ... We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a broader mass-market phenomenon.
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I would portray the lag as a glass half full rather than half empty. It's a pretty great performance when you consider what this quarter was competing with last year.
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I know at least two major distributors think the gap will get wider before the end of the year. There has been softness in the top 10 throughout the year, and in most weeks, it didn't take as much to be in the top 10 as it did in 2004. The music is not connecting with consumers the way it did last year.